Friday, December 26, 2008

ANGELA RACKSTRAW of the COMMUNITY ARTS THERAPY Programme, Cape Town, S. Africa is featured in the January 2009 issue of ODE MAGAZINE as one of the World's "Intelligent Optimists." as selected by the Most Reverend Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Angela has organized and encouraged CHALK4PEACE at Cape Town's St. George's Cathedral for the past three years, as well as expanding the event to Cork City School Project in Ireland and the Grahamstown Cathedral in Grahamstown, S. Africa. We honor Angela for her fortitude, talent, and spirit...and for bringing her arts therapy programme to S. Africa; and for sending her healing energy around the planet. Click on today's Post Title for Ode Magazine'sTribute to Angela Rackstraw.

The light of the world shines brighter because of her...

Congratulations to ANGELA RACKSTRAW and thank you toODE MAGAZINE for recognizing her efforts.

Monday, December 8, 2008

40 schools throughout Fairfax County Virginia. Cathedrals in South Africa. 300 people drawing on a tennis court in California. A packed driveway in Knoxville, Tennessee. A giant Dove of Peace draws its life from young artists in Ireland. What do these things have in common? They are all expressions of CHALK4PEACE, the worldwide chalk art project 4 peace.Courtyards and city centers, playgrounds, parking lots and sidewalks become canvases for world peace every September.Our goal is for ONE MILLION artists to join us next September, to show the world that we are giving peace its chance. Your help, in the form of modest donations, moves us closer to our goal. If everyone who likes the idea of CHALK4PEACEmakes a contribution of $5-100 to this project, we have a realistic chance of achieving our 2009 goal. You can donate through PayPal by clicking on today's Title Post or by mailing a check made out to CHALK4PEACE, Inc. to: CHALK4PEACE, Inc.P.O. Box 99289Emeryville, CA 94662We do not ask much; but we do ask that you participate. Your contribution is tax deductible under the fullest extent of the law. Be a CHALKSTAR! Support CHALK4PEACE! Peace be with you...

Monday, November 24, 2008

The CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL NOT ONLY HAD SCHOOLWIDE PARTICIPATION IN CHALK4PEACE, THEY MADE AN AWESOME VIDEO ABOUT THEIR EVENT! Produced by PAUL WESTMACOTT Paradigm Pictures www.paradigm-pictures.com Click on the Title Post to see it on YouTube!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The SOS HERMAN GMEINER SCHOOL in BETHLEHEM, WEST BANKshows us a rare glimpse into the true spirit of youth in the Palestinian territory. It is clear that young people the world over want PEACE. We sent chalk to them this year; we have not heard if they were able to participate again in CHALK4PEACE. WE CERTAINLY HOPE SO! This photo is from 2007.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

SOME 350 CHALKSTARS TURNED OUT FOR THE CHALK4PEACE EVENT AT THE BOULDER PUBLIC LIBRARY SEPT. 14. CLICK ON THE TITLE OF THIS POST TO SEE THE STORY AND PHOTOS FROM THE BOULDER DAILY CAMERA...NICE WORK BOULDER! OUR THANKS TO DONNA, CAROL AND CREW...!Photo courtesy of the Newlin Family.

Friday, November 7, 2008

CHAPIN TRAUGOTT, Upstate New York CHALKSTAR.sent us these photos of the CHALK4PEACE event she organized for the second year running.Thanks go out to the City of Geneva, NY for helping to make CHALK4PEACE an annual traditionin upstart New York!

Friday, October 24, 2008

In Virginia, Crystal City BID sponsored an interactiveCHALK4PEACE surrounding Rob Mandle's "Chalk It Up"airplane sculpture that could be drawn on. The Bright Horizons Day Care Center joined in with a new class every day; and passersby left their marks from September 18-25.Shouts go out to Crystal City BID for this innovative CHALK4PEACE project.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

WE KNOW THERE ARE MORE...CHALK4PEACE EVENTS WORLDWIDE in Sept. 2008emails have been removed to avoid website bots that gather the addresses please contact us at chalk4peace@gmail.com about corrections or if we forgot to post your site...CLICK ON THE TITLE OF THIS POST TO SEE THE PHOTOS!

Sept. 12 St. George's CathedralCape Town, South AfricaCoordinated by the Community ARTS Therapy programmeAngela Rackstraw, Organizer

Fairfax School Age Child Care Program (SACC)Lake Anne Elementary School SACCBonnie Brae Elementary School SACCCrossfield Elementary School SACCDogwood Elementary School SACCHerndon Elementary School SACCLees Corner Elementary School SACC Mantua Elementary School SACCOakton Elementary School SACCSleepy Hollow Elementary School SACC Westbriar Elementary School SACCColumbia Elementary School SACCNavy Elementary School School

Sunday, October 19, 2008

WE HAVE RECEIVED MORE THAN 2,200 PHOTOS SO FAR, AND KNOW OF AT LEAST EIGHT MORE MAJOR SITES WHO HAD A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENT THEIR CHALK4PEACE EVENT!PLEASE SEND PHOTOS TO: chalk4peace@gmail.comWE ARE ALSO ACCEPTING DVDs THAT WE WILL POST ONYOUR CHALK4PEACE PHOTO GALLERY!KEEP THOSE PHOTOS COMING!THE EXHIBITION OF CHALK4PEACE PHOTOS AT THE DC NATIONAL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER HAS BEEN AROUSING SUCCESS. THE EXHIBITION IS EXPECTED TO TRAVEL IN 2009.photo: CHALK4PEACE Event cohosted by the Albany Museum at the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. George, Grahamstown, S. AfricaParticipants were the Amasango Career School, Cathedral Sunday School and home schoolers. photo: Steven LangGrocott's Mail, South Africa's oldest independent newspaper,published an article about Grahamtown's CHALK4PEACE event.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

PAUL AND JACKIE FRITTS OF KNOXVILLE, TN HAVE TURNED THEIR DRIVEWAY INTO A CHALK4PEACE GLOBAL DESTINATION!FRIENDS OF THE FRITTS HAVE MADE CHALK4PEACE YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR PASSING ON THE INFORMATION TO YOKO ONO AT IMAGINEPEACE.COM...PLEASE CLICK ON THE TITLE OF THIS POST TO SEE THEIRCHALK4PEACE WEBSITE AND PHOTOS! YOU FOLKS ARE CHALKSTARS!

Thursday, October 9, 2008

MORE THAN 400 OF YOU ORGANIZED EVENTS, SET THINGS UP SO IT WOULD HAPPEN, AND ENCOURAGED THE WORLD TO DRAW TOGETHER 4 PEACE IN MORE THAN 150 LOCATIONS WORLDWIDE! MORE THAN 100,000 FOLKS JOINED US AS A RESULT OF YOUR EFFORTS! YOU ARE AWESOME! AS IN GRAND CANYON AWESOME! WE ARE BLESSED TO KNOW YOU!THANK YOU! LET'S DO IT AGAIN NEXT YEAR!

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA was the most enthusiasticlocation in the world for CHALK4PEACE. For more information about the FCPS Student Age Child Care Program and their involvement with CHALK4PEACE, please click on Today's Post Title above.

Monday, September 29, 2008

WHAT A AMAZING EVENT! WHAT AMAZING RESPONSE!The CHALK4PEACE East and West Coast Coordinators visited more than 20 sites with more than 3,600artists! We salute all those who took it upon themselves to organize their events and spreadtheir messages with chalk. We know that there are many more of YOU! Please send us your photos to chalk4peace@gmail.comCLICK ON THE TITLE OF THIS POST TO VISIT THE FIRST DOZEN CHALK4PEACE 2008 GALLERIES...

Saturday, September 20, 2008

In Piedmont, California, on 9/14, the Beach School, with Sponsors P.A.I.N.T.S. and the BEACH DAD'S CLUB held their Annual Pancake Breakfast and Chalk Festivaljoining CHALK4PEACE for the second year.A delicious and beautifully organized event,famous artist parents joined in with hundreds of young artists to create the most imaginative and enthusiastic chalk paintings one will find during CHALK4PEACE. We thank the BEACH COMMUNITY for theirenthusiastic participation and dedication to theidea that peace is always deserviung of its chance.A link to their gallery will be posted soon.photo: Jerry Downs

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

With this past weekend's kick off of CHALK4PEACE, dozens of schools, libraries, children's museums, town squares and sidewalks are in the midstof creating their messages of peace for the world to see. WE ARE COLLECTIVELY CREATING A DIALOG ABOUT PEACE.CHALK4PEACE Coordinators are giving it their all to make sure the hundreds of events go smoothly and contribute to the global lens with which we see Peace.

CHALK4PEACE Board members are traveling up and down on both coasts in the US attending as many events as time allows. Our job of collecting the photographs, stories and information is daunting as CHALK4PEACE grows larger by the day! Since YOU are rising to the challenge, WE are too!

BE A CHALKSTAR. MAKE A DONATION NOW TO CHALK4PEACE BY CLICKING ON THE TITLE OF THIS POST...THIS IS A BIG SHIP...YOUR DONATION HELPS US STEER IT!Thank you. Artwork from St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, S. Africaphoto: Angela Rackstraw, Director CATh

Monday, September 15, 2008

Reports of sunshine everywhere there is a CHALK4PEACE eventare coming in from around the world! Cape Town, Pasadena,Boulder, Washington, DC, Santurce, Puerto Rico, Florida, and Piedmont, California have repainted the planet so far this year!PLEASE SEND YOUR PHOTOS TO:chalk4peace@gmail.comso that we can share them with the world!!CLICK ON THE TITLE OF THIS POST TO SEE THE CHALK4PEACE ARTICLE IN THE BOULDER DAILY CAMERA

Friday, September 12, 2008

Cape Town, South Africa woke up to the first sun it's seen in awhile as the Community Arts Therapy programme kicked off CHALK4PEACE 2008 at St. George's Cathedral!Here's one of their amazing drawings!A global Thank You to Angela Rackstraw and her CATh team for being such great CHALKSTARS! Thanks to Johnny Nash for the title of today's post.CLICK ON TODAY'S TITLE TO SEE THE PHOTOS FROM CAPE TOWN!

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Thanks to Paul and Jackie Fritt and Friends of Knoxville, TN, Big Time CHALK4PEACE Advocates and event organizers of a great event on one of the most colorful driveways anywhere, CHALK4PEACE has been featured on the 5 Sept. 2008 front page of www.imaginepeace.com,Yoko Ono's website dedicated to Peace!

I went to Yoko Ono's Wishing Tree Project in Pasadenajust two days before to place a wish on a tree aboutCHALK4PEACE. My (our) wish came true!!!

Make sure to visit Yoko Ono's Wishing Tree Project wherever you may find it! MAKE A WISH!

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to Yoko Ono and all of you who are GIVING PEACE A CHANCE!!!

Friday, August 29, 2008

CHALK4PEACE EVENTS WORLDWIDE...so far...emails have been removed to avoid website bots that gather the addresses please contact us at chalk4peace@gmail.com about corrections or if we forgot to post your site...

Fairfax School Age Child Care Program (SACC)Lake Anne Elementary School SACCBonnie Brae Elementary School SACCCrossfield Elementary School SACCDogwood Elementary School SACCHerndon Elementary School SACCLees Corner Elementary School SACC Mantua Elementary School SACCOakton Elementary School SACCSleepy Hollow Elementary School SACC Westbriar Elementary School SACCColumbia Elementary School SACCNavy Elementary School School

CHALK4PEACE has Marielle Mariano, Henry Gallucio and the great folks at ARTOMATIC to thank for this stunning increase in enthusiasm and participation! Thank you also to the wonderful educators worldwide who encourage the teaching of peace.What a great spirit of cooperation!

Monday, August 4, 2008

We've heard from a new site in Grahamstown, S. Africa, and the HIDEOUT CHICAGO will have CHALK4PEACEas part of its 14th Annual Block Party. Children's Museumsin the Bay Area, ZEUM and MOCHA are joining us again! P.A.I.N.T.S' BEACH School in Piedmont, CA will KICK OFF CHALK4PEACE on the morning of Sept. 14 with Beach Dad's Famous Pancake Breakfast! 1,200 people are expected to attend!Los Angeles, Pasadena and Santa Monica are kicking up some dust4PEACE and Fairfax County Public Schools. VA are leading the charge with a dozen schools involved with CHALK4PEACE!They're getting ready to raise chalk dust in Turkey, Costa Rica, Canada, Ireland, England, Scotland, Palestine, Israel, the Philippinesand coast to coast throughout America. PLEASE TELL US WHEREYOUR EVENT IS by emailing chalk4peace@gmail.comWE WANT TO TELL THE WORLD THAT YOU AREREPAINTING THE PLANET THE COLORS OF PEACE...

Sunday, July 13, 2008

On July 10, The DESTINY ART CENTER Summer Arts Camp artists, Oakland refurbished the famous CHALK4PEACE sign on 47th and Adeline Sts. Afterwards they drew messages of peace and dancedand sang a beautiful empowering routine.Joaquin Alejandro Newman, Destiny's Artist in Residence, led more than 25 artists over to the site to brighten the wall and remind othersthat CHALK4PEACE IS COMING TO A SIDEWALK NEAR YOU!DESTINY ARTS CENTER, in conjunction with theN. OAKLAND COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOLwill hold their CHALK4PEACE on Sunday, Sept. 21...noon-4:00. 43rd Street between Linden and Adeline, Oakland.The public is welcome! visit www.destinyarts.org Top: Destiny artists chalk it up!Middle: Joaquin traces an acrobat!Bottom: John Aaron, Global Project Founder,CHALK4PEACEwatches the sun set on the new and greatly improvedCHALK4PEACE sign on Adeline!

CHALK4PEACE: Give a piece of chalk a chance...

HELP US DRAW THE WORLD TOGETHER ONCE AGAIN...

CHALK4PEACE

CHALK4PEACE is a global chalk art project that returns to a sidewalk near YOU for the tenth year in 2015 & encourages YOU 2 CHALK ON! Join us with your messages & visions of Peace at more than 400 sites worldwide, or create your own! Where will YOU repaint the planet the colors of peace? Help us draw the world closer together for peace.... because we have a lot to chalk about...IMAGINE ART; and, as Yoko says, IMAGINE PEACE. Stay tuned for more info about our upcoming film documentary.

CHALK4PEACE, Inc. is the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that organizes and guides the global event, distributing information, maintaining the pages and blogs, networking, fundraising, attending events, & gathering & collating your photos, videos and stories to share with the world through our Archives.More than 1000 people have volunteered for C4P worldwide; yet we are really a small organization handling a giant task. Those who participate in, organize and support CHALK4PEACE are called CHALKSTARS. Donations can be made through Pay Pal at www.chalk4peace.org, Your contribution is tax deductible under the fullest extent of the law. This blog tracks the news & stories of the people, locations and efforts that have made CHALK4PEACE a global peace movement...we welcome all artful approaches to Peace...

About the Director

John is the Global Project Founder
and CEO of CHALK4PEACE, Inc., a non-profit organization that oversees the CHALK4PEACE Project worldwide.
CHALK4PEACE, the young person's global Chalk Art Painting event
will happen again for the fifth time at hundreds of locations worldwide during September, 2010.
Rumor is he's also an artist and music of some note (bad pun).

CHALK4PEACE has expanded greatly this past year thanks to YOU!CHALK4PEACE 2010 WE ARE EXPECTING A HALF A MILLION CHALKSTARS!5 CONTINENTS 300+ SITES!It grows larger each year!The CHALK4PEACE official world website:www.chalk4peace.org,Contact us at chalk4peace@gmail.comfor more information.Please visit our past posts to catch up on the story of CHALK4PEACE 2009!It is an amazing story of cooperation and mobilization 4 peace across the planet!CHALK ON!....IMAGINE PEACE...John Aaron....Global Project Founder